Gregor Chisholm: Rogers Centre renovations should bring the buzz back to the Blue Jays
The stadium, which is set to host its first game of the season Tuesday night, has taken its fair share of criticism over the years for a cookie-cutter design and concrete jungle atmosphere. While the retractable roof and prime downtown location are selling points, everything else about the in-person experience hasn’t been up to par for some time.
It’s impossible for the Jays to recreate the initial buzz that surrounded the early years of the stadium. When the multi-purpose SkyDome opened in 1989, it was a heartbeat of Toronto’s core, a place prominent on the city’s skyline where people came to be seen whether they were baseball fans or not.
Baseball purists won’t be interested in any of that but there’s something in the renovation for them too because new outfield dimensions will have a direct impact on the product. The outfield wall has been moved in at certain spots and the symmetrical fence is gone, replaced with one that hasNext year, foul territory will be removed to bring the infield bowl even closer to the field.
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